I just don't get it. Didn't they learn their lessons with those two bad Flintstones fliums? Or those two bad Scooby Doo movies?? Of all the projects that would work in live action, they pick Yogi Bear over something that makes live-action-sense -- like "Jonny Quest?" I'll never understand Hollywood.

I still can't watch more than 5 minutes of those films.
Gimme classic Scooby any day.

I just don't get it. Didn't they learn their lessons with those two bad Flintstones fliums? Or those two bad Scooby Doo movies?? Of all the projects that would work in live action, they pick Yogi Bear over something that makes live-action-sense -- like "Jonny Quest?" I'll never understand Hollywood.

I dunno either. Maybe it's the age of the writers that's the impetus behind these "updates"/"remakes" in the sense that they tend to end up MOCKING the original shows (in an effort to be cynical/hip? ) as opposed to celebrating their unique, often tongue-in-cheek, humor -- which most of us at the time didn't "get", though our parents surely did (anybody else remember Rocky and Bullwinkle's "Fractured Fairy Tales?")! That being said, I'm also not certain that the audience they're trying to target (I'm assuming we're talking the Jonas Brothers/Hannah Montana/ Miley Cyrus Generation?) even KNOW the characters represented as they already have their own cultural icons, don't they?

It ultimately seems to me to be a case of Hollywood either barking up the wrong money tree, or spreading them(greedy)selves too thin!

Then again, this IS L.A., where you're never TOO RICH or TOO THIN -- which The Olsen Twins have proven time and again!

I think if they chose the right cast and did it in the same frame of mind it was originally intended, it could do okay.....I think they should stick to the original format though, a family garage band that accidentlally makes it big could be a great concept again, maybe find people who could all really sing ( i am not sure if lip-sync could still work post Milli Vanilli) and maybe expanded the format to one hour and do it as a sitcom/drama kind of in the vein of 7th Heaven perhaps....sadly, good family serial drama/comedies are sadly lacking, maybe broaden the appeal to have something attracting kids and adults sans the sexuality....I think they would need strong leads for Shirley, Keith, Laurie, Danny and Rueben and someone with teeny bopper sex appeal like David.....but i think it would only work if the sex appeal was subtle not overtly sexual and obnoxious like the VH1 one was.....the Rueben character was a little too over the top....the neuroses was fine, the cursing....hmmmm....well....I could have lived without that ....i think if it went into the death and healing after the death of the father more and developed the characters properly, they could resurrect it.....
but it will NEVER be our original......EVER
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